Indiana University School of Dentistry - Prognosis Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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lsjllf-5 Q THE gun dam -B IEN- E l 1895. a period of sixteen years. Dr. P. G. C. Hunt was actively instrumental in establishing the Indiana Dental College in 1878, and was placed at the head of the faculty and also at the head of the board of trustees, which positions he filled until his resignation one year later. He was again induced to assume the presidency in 1895, and was filling this office at the time of his death. Dr. P. G. C. Hunt was beloved by all who knew him. He was ever zealous to promote knowledge and the welfare of his profession and freely imparted his valuable knowledge and skill to all seekers. Throughout his life he was a frequent contributor to dental journals and was the author of a number of valuable ideas and handy clinics for use by dentists. Dr. P. G. C. Hunt was one of the best known men of the dental profession. Heely, Watt, McKelops, Palmer, Atkinson, Cushing and Taft were among his friends of co-workers. He died April 24, 1896, of dilatation of the heart, loved, honored and mourned by all who knew him. The late Dr. George Edwin Hunt was a worthy son and suc- cessor to his father, with whom he was associated in the practice of dentistry for many years. He received his grammar school education and the first two years of his high school work in Indianapolis. Then followed a two-year course at DePauw and one year at the University of Michigan in the study of civil engineering. In 1886, after four years of practical construction work, he entered the Indiana Dental College. He then received his second degree from the Indiana Medical School. He was a member of the National Dental Associa- tion of Dental Faculties since 1895, and secretary since 19059 vice- presiclent of fourth International Dental Congress, which met at St. Louis in 19043 post-president of the Institute of Dental Peda- gogics since 1896. He had given his entire time to our college and to the writing for dental publications. He was a Mason, as was his father before him, a member of the Delta Tau Delta College Fra- ternity and of the Delta Sigma Delta Dental Fraternity. He was also active in civic affairs, serving as secretary of the Indianapolis Commercial Club in 1901-1903, as secretary of Indiana State Board of Commerce for two years, and secretary of Indiana University Board of Trustees. He helped to establish the Technical Institute, and public bathhouses in Indianapolis. He was also a member of the Citizens' League in 1902. George Edwin Hunt, M. D., D. D. S., our beloved dean, friend, guider and helper of every student who sought or needed his help, was taken ill at midnight june, 1914, with acute gastritis. At 2 o'clock his wife attended him and at 6 o'clock on the morning of july 11, on entering his room found him dead. In the death of this man Indiana Dental College, her student body and faculty, as well as the entire dental profession, suffered an irretrievable loss. With the exception of his illustrious father, our school owes more to his ability and industry than to any other one being. Broad- minded, public-spirited and sympathetic, and filled with a dynamic energy, he was ever a monument of strength and example. No expression of sorrow or regret can adequately voice our sense of loss, but we who knew him and loved him can ever hold before us his noble character and great ability as a standard toward which we may strive. And our reward, if we succeed to the honor and advance- ment of our profession, shall be the knowledge that he would have been gratified and proud of us, that had he lived he would have grasped us by the hand, smiled, and said, Well done.

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I-521157 1 -THE EIXTIZIZNI umgwv I 32111312 3 The P. G. C. and G. E. Hunt Society VERY student who has attended the Indiana Dental Col- lege since 1896 knows the purposes and accomplishments of the P. G. C. Hunt Society. This society, founded by E the class of 1899, was named in honor of that eminent S dentist, Dr. P. G. C. Hunt, and of his worthy and emi- my . nent son, Dr. George Edwin Hunt, whose name we have now associated with his father's in the society. We give the fol- lowing brief biography of these men to whom our college and the profession of dentistry owe so much. About the year 1812 a young surveyor and his wife moved from North Carolina, where they had been married two years before, to Champaign County, Ohio, near Urbana. Here on a farm P. G. C. Hunt, the youngest of a family of six, was born june 16, 1827. Six years later his father died of smallpox and the mother removed with her children to West Liberty, near Knightstown, Henry County, Indiana. Young Phineas George worked on his uncle's farm at West Liberty during the summer and attended school in Wayne County, near Richmond, Indiana, during the winter. When he was seventeen years of age, David Picket Hunt, an elder brother, who had studied dentistry with Dr. Harding at Lexington, Ky., located in Indianapolis, being the second dentist to select that village for resi- dence. This was in 1846. Young Hunt became a student in the office of his brother and when two years later the brother died, P. G. C. Hunt, barely of age, found the duties and responsibilities of a full practice thrust upon his shoulders. .In October, 1884, Dr. P. G. C. Hunt married Hanna Mary Phipps. His practice of dentistry grew apace and he was early recognized as a leader in his profession. In these early days he fashioned many of his instruments. The blacksmith shop in which he forged and finished his instruments stood on the Circle, now Monument Place. In September, 1858, he took an active part in the organization of the State Dental Association and a year later he is credited with devising the method of attaching porcelain to a metallic base with rubber or celluloid fRichardson's mechanical den- tistry J. In the same year he attended a preliminary meeting to con- sider the organization of a National Dental Association, and was present at the first session of the American Dental Association held at Washington, D. C. He was an active member of this association until his death, holding the president's chair in 1872. He originated the small articulator for crown and bridge work, as well as many other useful operating instruments. In 1861 he was elected presi- dent of the Indiana State Dental Association, holding that oflice until 1864, in which year, on April 29, at Washington and Oriental streets, our own beloved preceptor, the late Dr. George Edwin Hunt, was born. In 1869 the Indiana Medical College conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine upon P. G. C. Hunt. In 1870 the Ohio College of Dental Surgery similarly honored him with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. The first law to regulate the practice of dentistry was passed during the winter of 1878-1879, and provided for a board of five examiners to be elected by the State Dental Association. On the last Tuesday in June,'1879, the first meeting of the board occurred and was duly organized with the election of Dr. P. G. C. Hunt as president, which position he held by re-election continuously until

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